An analytical theory of the buoyancy-Kolmogorov subrange transition in turbulent flows with stable stratification

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1982, 2013, Pages

  Sukoriansky, Semion ^a   Galperin, Boris ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Quasi normal spectral closure theories; Stable stratification; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE;

ANALYTICAL THEORY; CLOSURE THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; ENERGY EXCHANGES; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; INERTIAL SUBRANGE; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; LANGEVIN EQUATION; RECURSIVE PROCEDURE; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; SMALL SCALE TURBULENCE; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECTRAL THEORY; STABLE STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; SUBRANGE; VERTICAL EDDY VISCOSITIES;

BUOYANCY;

EID: 84871754059     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0212     Document Type: Review

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